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A review by ameliapinto
Sophocles: Ajax by Sophocles
3.0
Ajax has committed an offense towards the Gods and is now being punished for it by Athena.
Out of the tree Sophocles plays I read, this was my least favourite one because on the other two plays (Antigone and Oedipus Rex), I finished the reading with a lot of food for thought, whereas in this one not so much. However, I was familiar quite a few of the characters, Odysseus, Athens and Achilles, and I enjoyed the mythological part of this play.
It was also interesting to read about the relationship between humans and Gods, because I obviously knew that Gods had a superior position relatively to mere mortals, but I wasn’t aware that they had the power to kill citizens in the name of a small disrespectful attitude.
Out of the tree Sophocles plays I read, this was my least favourite one because on the other two plays (Antigone and Oedipus Rex), I finished the reading with a lot of food for thought, whereas in this one not so much. However, I was familiar quite a few of the characters, Odysseus, Athens and Achilles, and I enjoyed the mythological part of this play.
It was also interesting to read about the relationship between humans and Gods, because I obviously knew that Gods had a superior position relatively to mere mortals, but I wasn’t aware that they had the power to kill citizens in the name of a small disrespectful attitude.